How to Recover Deleted Files from Computer

Can I Recover Deleted Files from Computer?

I made a stupid mistake this morning. When I was about to clean my computer, I accidentally removed some folders with “Shift” + “Delete”. Now all files on the deleted folders are gone. As they are so valuable for me, can someone tell me how to recover deleted files from computer? Many thanks.

Many users think that the files will disappear forever if they are deleted with “Delete” +”Shift”, because they can’t be retrieved from Recycle Bin. But this is actually not true. Though the deleted files are no longer available on your computer, they are still on your computer’s hard drive before new data overwrites them. You can possibly recover deleted files from computer with a computer data recovery program.

Here is what I’m going to introduce to you: Wondershare Data Recovery, or Wondershare data recovery for mac. This Windows and Mac supported program that enables you to reclaim quantities of deleted files from your computer, including office documents, audio files, pictures, videos, emails, etc. This utility requires no special technical skills. You just make some easy clicks and then the deleted files will all be retrieved.

You can download a trial version below. Please select the right version for your computer system.

How to Recover Deleted Files from Computer? Only in 3 Steps

Let’s try recovering deleted files from Windows computer. Mac users can do the recovery in similar steps with Mac version.

Step 1 Select recovery method

Launch Wondershare Data Recovery on your computer, and then you’ll see 3 available recovery methods in the window. Here to recover deleted files from computer, you can firstly select “Lost File Recovery” mode.

Note: Please install this data recovery program on another partition of your computer.

Step 2 Scan the partition where your files were deleted from

All partitions on your computer will be displayed in program window. You just need to select the drive letter of the partition that your files were deleted from and click “Start” to scan for deleted files.

Step 3 Retrieve deleted files from computer

All found files will be shown in the window as long as the scan finishes. You can view the original file names to check whether your deleted files can be recovered or not. And you will also be able to preview images before recovery too.

Then you just need to select files you want to reclaim and click “Recover” button to select a path on your computer to keep them.